Posts Tagged ‘Gypsies’
Oxford Human Rights Festival
Myself and video journalist Jason N. Parkinson are honoured to have been asked to speak about our joint work at the 12th Oxford Human Rights Arts Festival this year.
We will be showing film and photographs, with Q&A at the Ultimate Picture Palace –
Tickets are available to book here for The Life and Work of a Video/Photojournalist on Wednesday 26th February 2014 6-8pm
I have also been commissioned by the Oxford Human Rights Arts Festival to exhibit photographs about the persecution of gypsies and travellers, an issue that I have documented for 20 years. The exhibition will run throughout the festival 24-28th February at the Old Fire Station.
The featured image is one from the exhibition – Police and bailiffs evict travellers and their supporters from Dale Farm, Basildon. Essex. © Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk
Dale Farm Eviction
It has been a real privilege to document the Dale farm community over the past few years and share the joy and the sorrow at family events, on the protests and barricades. I will cherish the generosity and warmth shown to me at times of great emotional upset.
I hope the long battle against this eviction will mark in history a turning point, an end to the casual racism and vicious discrimination against travellers, gypsies and their way of life.
See eviction slideshow here
Police and bailiffs move in to remove travellers and their supporters from Dale Farm, who build barricades and burn caravans to stop them. Basildon. Essex.
© Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk
See Dale Farm Children’s Barricade here
Happier times, see Dale Farm wedding blogs here and here
More archive images available to license from: www.reportdigital.co.uk